Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Charleston, WV

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1105 PM EDT THU JUN 14 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS WEAKENING OVER WEST VIRGINIA...

THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH OHIO...WESTERN
PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHRN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE
EVENING WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY AS THEY MOVED INTO WESTERN AND NORTH
CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. BY 11 PM A LARGE BAND OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED
THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH AND WEST
INTO WEST VIRGINIA NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ELKINS TO WILLIAMSON.

SOME PATCHES OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WERE STILL DETECTED BY WEATHER
RADAR NEAR MORGANTOWN...NEAR SISTERSVILLE AND NEW MARTINSVILLE ALONG
THE OHIO RIVER AND FROM NEAR SAINT ALBANS SOUTH THROUGH LOGAN AND ON
TO PIKEVILLE KENTUCKY. THE INTENSITY OF THE RAIN CONTINUED TO DIMINISH
AND THE THREAT OF ANY SIGNIGFICANT HEAVY RAIN APPEARS TO BE OVER FOR
THE TIME BEING IN MOST OF WEST VIRGINIA.
THE AIR MASS OVER THE STATE IS STILL VERY MOIST AND LOCALLY HEAVY
DOWNPOURS COULD OCCUR IF THUNDERSTORMS REGENERATE DURING THE NIGHT.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PITTSBURGH ISSUED FLASH
FLOOD WARNINGS EARLIER IN THE EVENING FOR OHIO AND MARSHALL
COUNTIES IN THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE AND THEY CONTINUE IN EFFECT
UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
1115 PM EDT THU JUN 14 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...

AT 1105 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED A LINE
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE
LEADING EDGE EXTENDED FROM NEAR SPENCER TO CHARLESTON TO ABOUT 15 MILES
EAST OF LOGAN THEN SOUTHWEST TO NEAR WHITESBURG IN LETCHER COUNTY
KENTUCKY. THE LINE IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE
INTO RALEIGH...WYOMING...AND MCDOWELL COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA
BY MIDNIGHT.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS
AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE OVER NICHOLAS AND MONROE COUNTIES AT 1005 PM
HAVE SINCE DISSIPATED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
205 AM EDT THU JUN 14 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS OVER WEST VIRGINIA...

CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINS FROM THUDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING AT ABOUT 155 AM ALONG THE CALHOUN-GILMER COUNTY
BORDER..SPECIFICALLY ONE CELL WAS 5 MILES WEST OF GLENVILLE..AND
ANOTHER CELL WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GLENVILLE. SCATTERED
AREAS OF MODERATE RAINS WERE ALSO OBSERVED FROM SUTTON-RAINELLE..AND
LEWISBURG. MODERATE RAINS WERE ALSO INDICATED OVER BARBOUR..LEWIS AND
UPSHUR COUNTIES.

THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT DURING
THE PAST HOUR. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY RI,SE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE
WHO LIVE ALONG ANY SMALL STREAM AND CREEK SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS
AFTER ANY HEAVY RAINS AND BE PREPARED TO EVACUATE IF NECESSARY.
STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES.

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